On this day: April 16

LSD's creator drops acid (accidentally) for the first time, Martin Luther King writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," The Rolling Stones release their debut album, and tragedy strikes Virginia Tech, all on this day.

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1994: American author Ralph Ellison, best known for his National Book Award-winning novel "Invisible Man," dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 in New York City.

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